Study: Lack of Sleep Bad for Genes

Written by Pat's Papers | Tuesday, 5 March 2013 8:13 AM

Bad news for those of us who wake up before the sun rises. A new study, reported in today’s Washington Post, has found that a lack of sleep is bad for your genes. Chronic sleep deprivation, which is defined as getting less than six hours of sleep a night for a week, changes the activity of about 3 percent of our genes. Among the genes disturbed by sleepless nights are ones that control “metabolism, immunity, inflammation, and hormone response.”

SOURCE: Washington Post

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